The City Hall Carillon
One of the things Hoxsie misses about downtown Albany is the sound of the City Hall carillon ringing out at lunchtime. But while H.H. Richardson’s City Hall building was equipped […]
One of the things Hoxsie misses about downtown Albany is the sound of the City Hall carillon ringing out at lunchtime. But while H.H. Richardson’s City Hall building was equipped […]
Soon we’ll have much more on the installation of Albany’s City Hall carillon – it was quite the endeavor – but for now, this interesting little snippet from the Albany […]
Marie Sklodowska Curie, born in the Kingdom of Poland and later a citizen of France, became world famous for her research on radioactivity and the discovery of polonium and radium. […]
Permit us a rare excursion from our pretty strict focus on the history of the Capital District of New York to note an odd little bit that we ran across […]
We wrote about the Maiden Lane Bridge last week. Now a little bit of time for the Dunn, or at least what would become the Dunn. While we don’t know […]
We’ve written before about the Maiden Lane Bridge, giving some of the history of what was the second bridge built across the Hudson at Albany. In that story, we included […]
Yesterday we talked a little bit about Schenectady’s Edison Hotel, and its predecessor, the Givens Hotel. In researching that, we tripped upon an article from the Gazette back in 1936 […]
Our recent post on the founding of the Edison Machine Works in Schenectady led to a number of questions about the Edison Hotel, long gone from the downtown scene but […]
Last time we talked about Col. Robert Furman, who was critical in attracting Edison’s Machine Works to site in Schenectady. Today, his commercial building and his home still stand, and […]
Some of the details of how the Edison Machine Works (now you know it as General Electric – GE) came to be located in Schenectady are lost to time, but […]